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Illustrated Nargile Users Guide The definitive guide to modern-day Turkish water-cooled smoking pipes -- their components, their assembly and preparation, their use (including nargile etiquette), and their care
Unassembled nargile components, accessories, tobacco, and charcoal 'fuel'
The gövde [body in English] is made of decorative glass or ceramic material -- and it's where the filtering water-cooled smoking pipe is housed.	The boru [tube in English] fits snugly into the neck of gövde. The harsh unfiltered smoke flows through this tube from the lüle [pipe bowl] to the water-cooled smoking pipe in the gövde, where it is naturally-filtered -- and its temperature greatly reduced.	The boru fits through the neck of the gövde.
When the boru is fully seated in the gövde, it must form an air-tight seal.	These items are the tepsi and the maşa [*baseplate* and *tongs]. The ruzgarlık* [*windbreak] may be placed on the baseplate near the end of the assembly procedure. The tongs (which may be attached to the tepsi* by a thin chain) are used to handle the charcoal [mangır], whenever necessary.	Placing the tepsi and the maşa
The tepsi and maşa in place...	This is the clay lüle [*pipe bowl*].	Placing the lüle...
When the lüle is in place it must form an air-tight seal.	The marpuç [*smoking tube] consists of several sections -- a hard section that connects to the nargile boru, a longish flexible section (made of leather) that leads to the nargile handle, and the imame* [mouthpiece] section.	Inserting the marpuç into the boru.
When the marpuç is properly inserted into the boru it must form an air-tight seal.	These items are the imame and the sipsi [mouthpiece and '*reed' in English]. The imame* is the hard mouthpiece (cum handle) section of the marpuç (made from kehribar [*fossil resin] in fine nargile). The term comes from the same shape of the imame* section of Islamic prayer beads. The sipsi is a disposable sanitary plastic device for 'puffing' the filtered nargile smoke.	When the sipsi is properly inserted into the imame it forms an air-tight seal. These sipsi devices allow several people to smoke the same pipe -- with each person using his or her own sanitary sipsi puffing device.
A box of vacuum-packed capuccino-flavored tütün [*tobacco*]	Placing the tütün in the lüle	The tütün in the lüle
Covering the tütün with folyo [*tin-foil] is necessary with flavored tobaccos -- which tend to be 'wet'. Foil is not necessary with traditional-style Tömbeki* tobacco.	Perforating the folyo with any thin, sharp object -- allows the charcoal to burn wet tobacco, but stops wet tobacco from putting out the charcoal.	One of these charcoal disks called mangır [*'coin money'*] is ideally suited for a typical 30-40 minute nargile smoking session. But, just about any kind of non-smelly charcoal is fine for the job.
A nargile uzman [*expert] holds the mangır* (while he lights it) with a maşa (*tongs*).	The lit mangır is placed on the perforated folyo using a maşa.	The uzman 'primes' the lit nargile (while an aficionado looks on) with a series of long, deep puffs through his sipsi. Before long, the cooled and filtered smoke is seen above the water-cooled smoking-line in the gövde, and then begins to reach the smoker's mouth.

This item is a ruzgarlık [windbreak], and is not always used -- unless it's breezy.	The ruzgarlık in place, protecting the smoldering charcoal	A fully-assembled nargile, ready to smoke
A modern-day nargile aficionado enjoys an ancient tradition... And, it's always 'try before you buy' at our Gümüldür sales-outlet.